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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30
TIE LIME-kILN CLUB.
Brother Gardner Sets Forth the Advantages
of Being Philosopher-The Rotundity Of
the GiOba


Detroit Free Press
"If 1 war to lib my life over agin I
should seek 20 be a philosopher said
Brother Gardner, as the thermometer
marked go in Paradise Hall. Il has
spent a good sheer of the las 90 Vars
tighten philosophy, an feel dat it has
been de wuss fur me. If had de chance
to begin all ober agin, l should do diff
ferently.
Gas baby, should reason dat de mo-
1 slept de faster l would grow, an de fas-
ter / growed Ge sooner I'd get beyond
babyhood.
"As child, I should reason dat bumps,
thumps, falls an heartaches war partian'
parcel of my lot, an de mo- I had of 'em
de tuffer 1 would grow.
'sAs youth, I'd take bit OF chalk an
fgger up dat I'd git about so many lick
in's week-heT about so many fights
wild de boys-rarn about so much rascal
ity-be disappointed about so often
"As young man, I'd fgger dat de world
was heah befo' / was heard Of: Dat I'd be
stepped on about twice e week; dat
couldn't reform nobody nor nuthin'; dat
de mo anxious l was 70 upset things De
more shoe leather I'd wear out; dat de
churches should De left to de preachers,
an de guv'ment TO de pollytishuns.
"4s an ole man I'd feel dat what is ar
ali right. I'd take Billiards il de winter
my roastin.s II de sumner-births,
deaths, joys, sorrovs, fears, hopes an all
dat as sunthin' dat had 70 come in dis life
an be put up wid to de best Of our ablli-
ty. You may fgger an fgger, but I'm
telIin' you dat de man Who kin fad wall
ct in de road to-day-lose his mule by
. death tomorrow -diskiber dat mis- wife has
-lopeG de day arter, sa' tern up az de reg
lar Friday evenin' prayer mestiR' in good
shape am gvins TO take big sheer Oh
dis worlds comforts an git to heaben iist
( as soon as De rest Of u. Let rs noa pUr-
ceed with de rsg'Iar order OF biznsss."
NOT ENCOURAGED.
The secretary announced eommUnI-
| cation from Hon. Gigback Taylor, res
| Ident OF one the suburbs Of Montgomery,
1 Ala, known as .VesuFius,' stating his
/ readiness TO journey to Detroit and ap-
pear before the club and deliver MS lee
| ture on: SIS the World Growing Bladder
She Is" He didn't want to make any
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

NEW YoEx, Dec. 17.-Rey. James
Powell, d. D., corresponding secretary of
the American Missionary Association,
died suddenly Of apoplexy this morning
at his residence n Brooklyn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30
Whore the injured We're Taken

MEDFoHD, Wis, Dsc. 23.-The numer-
Gus persons injured in the accident last
night were carried to Phillips hotel, with
the exception of five that went south by
a special train.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

GREECE was swept Monday night by q
fierce hurricane accompanied by snow.
Twenty five vessels were driven ashore
and wrecked in the Gulf of Potras.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

GERMANY is taking steps toward max
ing the American penal system the basis
of a new system for that country.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

A HIGH wave caused By rough weather
destroyed large amount of property at
GuadeIla, a small port Of Porto Rico.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

MESToN & LKAPoLD, Wholesale wrap
ping paper dealers have confessed judg
ments in sums aggregating $4,000. The
assets are $4,000 and the liabilities
100000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

FRENCH CANADIAN colonization in the
province of Ontario continues to be an
object of concern to the British Canadi-
ans there. Father LabelIe, priest with
practical turn, who was an active pro
motor of the railroad between Ottawa and
Montreal, is now organizing French colo
nies at the sources of the Ottawa river
and in northern Ontario.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30
A Three Per CENT Dividend Declared

NEW YoKK, Dec. 27.-The Chicago, ST.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad has
declared dividend Of three per cent or
preferred stock payable January 20.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

JOSEPH CHAMBFRLAIs is quoted at Otta-
wa as expressing the hope that the fish
cries question will be settled by the com
mission. London dispatches indicate
that his letters to the home govern nent
are not 80 hopeful. Governor General
Lansdogne has ordered generous sup
ply of orchids, which may have revived
the spirits of the commissioner since his
arrival in Canada.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30
The Raising Of Money for a Residence for Mrs.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-The committee
of gentlemen who have charge of the
fund &c purchase and present residence
to the widow Of the late General W. s.
Hancock, expect that the amount neces-
sary will be subscribed immediately II
is stated that S15, ,000 has been subscribed
IN varions amounts By the friends OF the
late general, and the committee hopes TO
secure the remainder required IN time TO
present Mrs. Hancock with the house
that has been selected. during the holi-
days
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.--Owing to the
strike at the Port Richmond coal piers a
number of schoOners will leave TO day
for Baltimore, where there are no labor
troubles and abundance of bituminous
coal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

THERE have been over twelve hundred
private bills introduced in the house al
ready
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

THE Webers' claim they have proven
clear title to property covering sixty SIX
acres in New York city south of Canal
street. The property Is valued at 10000
600. The plat, now studded with ma sive
blocks, was bought in 1886 by Wilfred
Weber, of Holland, who leased it to a
kinsman for two hundred years. The
lease expired in 1877 and the land natur
ally reverted to the descendants of the
original WiIfred Weber.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30
The brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
Turn Against the knights.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.--A special from
Reading says: The strike has developed
the existence of an unpleasant sentiment
between the Knights of Labor and the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

ThE dispatches announce that gen
teman by the name of jay Hubbell" Is
candidate for the congressional nOmi-
nation to succeed Congressman Mohat,
of Michigan, just deceased. Hubbell-
Hubbell-the name sort OF sounds ia
miliar; MY Dear HubbelI, how are the
departments doing" Yes, that is it..
Hubbell was president, or boss, of the re-
publican club one time.
TnE State journal reprints, with edi-
torial approval, an article from the New
York Tribune on the tariff. The point
attempted TO bo made in the article IL
that high tariff protects American labor
ers against the pauper labor OF Europe.
Now will the State journal please explain
in which way it operates to produce that
result, when the managing capitalists Of
all the protected industries, have for
twenty yenrs been importing the pauper
labor itself by lho ship load, free Of dutH
10 take the places of American opera
tiyes; and arc now evadIng the late law
against the importation of contract
labor" by such devices knowz to the
craft, a5 to secure the coming of pEuper
labor from Europe. faster than before
the law was passed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

cable di=patcHefrom Referee Atkin-
son to Richard Z. Fox says that Smith re
fuses to renew the fight with-KiIrain and
that the stakes must be drawn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30
THURspAY. DEc. %.

Ssnate.-Ssn. Dolpn introduced bill
TO provide for payment of claims for
damages By Indian depredatlons, ag-
gregating 100000. or 5000. coo.
The senate then took up joint reso-
luton, introduced by Sen. Doiph Dec. Il,
proposing a constitutional amendment
on the subject of marriage aRd divorce,
and prohibiting kigamy and polygamy.
The proposed amendment is in the fol-
lowing ~ords: Congress shall have the
power 20 legislate on the subject of mar
riage ans divorce by general laws ap-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

DAKoTAs dismemberment does not ap-
parentIy find favor with many OF the re-
spectacle and conservative citizens of
that territory. rhe basis for this opinion
is found in the proceedings of the recent
"one-state" convention at Aberdeen,
whose decorum and good sense were IN
marred by noisy debates. Congress
was deceAtly asked to pass an enabling
act for the reorganization of Dakota,
with its present boundaries as state.
A committee OF 10 will carry this petition
to the national capital, and will remain
there this winter, working for Dakota's
interest with might and main.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

TIE phenomenal rapidity with which
tho population of western Kansas has
spread out in the past year or two, has
brought chat region into uucomfor-
table straits. The later dispatches do
not bear out the gloomy reports which
were sent at the start, but it is evident
that the suffering from cold is genuine
and widespread. The people have been
cut off this year by scant crops from the
corn which at other times has served
them for fuel, and tho railroads find it
difficult to keep pace with the population,
so as to place coal within reaching dis
tance. There are some dangers to be
faced i'll a new country as grave as those
which the Pilgrims encountered on this
"storn and rock bound coast"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-30

The experiment of running & car by
an electric motor Instead of horse power
has been tried for three months on the
Fourth avenue line in New York, and al
though it does not yet work perfectly,
the directors expect to adopt it for the
whole road before long. The Julien
storage system, which is employed for
lighting on the fast express between New
York aud Boston, Is applied to motor.
When it IS in full operation the cars will
be Lighted az well as run by electricity.
This will DO away with the great stables,
the wearing out of thousands of horses on
the pavements, auG great deal of dis
comfort and expense. AS many men
will have to be employed in running tho
cars, but the force of stable employees
will be dispensed with of course.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23
PERSONAL

James Darrah left via the Northern Pa
cific for St. John, New Brunswick, last
night.
S. E. Larabie, W. ". Bennett, Deer
Lodge; R. G. Gordon, MADAM Creek; F. R
Miles. Stuart, are at the Centennial.
Frank NJ Daily, business manager of Nc.
Fadden's Boston Double Uncle Toms
Cabin Company, arrived in town yesterday
and is stopping at the Windsor.
Mrs. Thomas LaveIl and Mrs. RIDDEN
bargh, her sister, OF Boise City. left last
night for Fort Custer to visit a sister living
there. They will be back in ten days.
Mr.. J. NJ. Merrill and family left last
night for a four weeks visit to San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Merrill goes on business and
takes his family with him for the benefit of
their health.
The numerous friends OF Joseph Luke
will be glad to hear that he has returned
from the Hot Springs of Arkansas, where
he has been for the benefit OF his health,
and that he has benefited by the trip.
W. ". Woods, Salt Lake: c. P. Bielen-
barg. Deer Lodge; A.C. Mclean, Helena;
VIM. Norton, Stuart; W. F. Franklin, w.
n. Granger. st. Paul; H. Kirkendall, Mis-
soula; C.. Griebel, Milwaukee,; Geo. Dorput;
Rockford. H.: B. S. Fitch, Denver, are the
st. Nicholas arrivals yesterday.
F.W. Young. OF the Lion. Imperial ard
Washington insurance companies, Sar
Francisco. LETT last night for Dillon. He
has been here for the past few days in the
interest of those companies, and said if
rests him more to come to Butte than
anywhere else on his long and arduous
trips. He is a cousin of the whole-sonled
Commissions ofth same patrony-
mic. B%oardman, the inveterate, rune in
a new word on him here. which he is going
to paralyze the San Francisco manager
with.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23
A Close Call.

They were discussing the Eagan stabbin,
ARRAY at Gold Creek when one mamie
was full Of years but spry and active as
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS he never could abide
knives nohow, a sentiment shared by hi:
hearers. IN take any risks with a gun,
said he, ''but III turn tail at the sight o.
a knife"
You'd oughter see how them Greasers
down on the Rio Grande border handles
them loose and careless" said a younger
man. "No sooner disarm one Of the var
mint than he'd reach bach of his neck and
pull another. They're stuck all over
with them and they use them mighty
ugly"
"A knife'l always 60 straight in where it
strikes you, but a bullet don't always
said the weather beaten veteran. "There's
only about a space of four inches width on
a mans body that contains any vital part
under it. You just get cover for that and
you may be hit but you wont be badly
hurt. w seen men shot through the
body and in a few weeks they was up and
around as well as ever"
Il remember a case of shooting in Illinois
when 1 was a boy" said the younger
speaker, land it was the most curious I've
seen. There was an old Irishman named
Pat Dolan who livedin a house on the edge
OF town. He was pretty well heeled, but
couldn't write andI used to 90 down to his
house every Sunday and write letters for
him to the old country. One day a neigh
Dor raised the cry that old Pat had com
mitted suicide and l was one of the first to
get there. We traced a track of
blood from the house out to his barn
and all around it and l went in
side and there was Pat hanging by
a rope around his neck and his legs resting
a rack. He was lying face up when |
him doubled up and l pulled out my
knife and was going to cut the rope for |
thought sure he was dead, when hestartled
me by saying: Don't cut the rope, l gave
seventy-five cents for it Yesterday, H.
had two wounds in his forehead where b.
had shot himself with a 32-calibre pistol
and there were two wounds in the back os
his head where the bullets came out Just
the same distance apart as those in front.
vas thunder=truck at the man being
alive, shot, as it appeared, through the head
.wice. But the doctor examined him and
the bullets had just passed round
liz skull under the skin, and he was as
as any man in town. Of course he
must have held the pistol at an angle to
lis head, but it cured him of his suicidal
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23
THE LAWRENCE.BATES MATCH.
Articles Signed for the Match to Come
Off Next Thursday.

Articles OF agreement between Jack Law
renee and Jim Bates were signed in Butte
yesterday afternoon ard are given below.
sam Martin, Lawrence's manage who has
been chiefly instrumental in getting up the
match, says that the exhibition will be no
hippodrome. 1t is arranged to take place
at the Grand Opera House next Thursday,
the 2sth instant, and preceding the event
Of the evening there will be sparring and
wrestling that will be of considerable
interest to the spectators. All lovers of the
manly art here-and they are legion-can
look forward with certainty to one OF the
best evening Entertainments in the athletic
way that has been given in Butte since the
Sullivan combination was here. The men
are already in fine trim. and though Law
renee tips the beanI at eight pounds
less than Bates, his activity and GOODNESS
warrant a very evenly balanced contest.
Ihe local fancy can rest assured that the
terms OF the agreement will be carried out
to the letter, as the principals to the
match have agreed to stake their reputa-
ton in avoiding any such disa ppniutInent-
as have recently taken place. The match
is for $500 and the gate receipts after ex-
pe"ses have been deducted. The following
is a copy Of the
ARTICLES OF
BITE, N. T., April 21. 1SS7.-Wheres,
james Bates, Of Helena. NJ. T, on the first
part, and Jack Lawrence. of Butte, on the
second part, do hereby agree to box twenty
rounds according to the MARQUIS of
Queensberry rules with four-ounce gloves for
500 a side and the entire gate receipts |
after expenses have been deducten, Said !
match to take place in the city OF Butte, |
N. T.. at the Grand Opera House on Thurs. |
lay, April 20, A. d. 1887, in a twenty-four /
DOT ring.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23
LESSON IN

The workingmen in St. Louis have
learned wisdom in one respect, however IN.
wise they may be in other directions
They are arranging for a grand parade bv
labor organizations on May LIST. and have
resolved that the only flag which shall be
displayed on the occasion will he the Stars
and Stripes. The red flag Of the Com.
munists has injured the workingmep in
this country almost as much as the b-sr
ransues OF the r~ed-nouthed agitators. In
America the red flag is regarded az the
banner Of the enemies to both government,
and society. and laboring men in New
York, Chicago and other cities, having mar.
AIDED under the suspicious rag. have
brought themselves and their orpaniza.
into disrepute. The St. Lou;s
laborers will gain friends and public sym.
patby by showing that however great NAV
b the wrongs inflicted on them, thew re.
'pect the Government and believe in the
lag OF tho free.-Salt Lake Herald.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23
REPUBLICAN CITY CONVENTION.
Action of the City Committee Last
Night-The Polling Places, .Judges
and Clerks.


Night-The Polling Places, eJudge.
and Clerks.
The Republican City Committee convened
pursuant to call at the Office of ". H. De
Witt yesterday evening with a fall attend
ance. Alderman Pinkham occupied the
chair, and Mr.. Dewitt filed the position
OF secretary.
A full and frank discussion of the situa.
ton was held and the outcome was the
following action:
Convention for the purpose of nominating
candidates for city officers to be voted for
| at the next annual city election be held at
Butte on the 29thday of April at 12 o'clock
noon. That primaries for the election of
delegates and alternates to such ouven
ton be held in the different wards of the
city from $50 p. m. to 9 p. N. on the 23d
OF April at the following polling places:
First Ward-Polling place, theCcurt House
Judges: c. F. Lloyd, II. Rondebush, J.. D.
jerks. Clerks: r. D. Grant, Frank
Themes.
Second Ward-Polling place. W. H. De-
Wits office. judges: Jele Roach, j.. NJ.
Bowes, John Kirby. Clerks: F. E. Glea-
son, George B. Sarchet.
Third Ward-Poliing place. W. Pinkham's
store. Judges: Thompson Campbell. George
Perkins. R. c. Knox. Clerks: A. A.. Nc
MILAN, Jos. Chauvin.
Fourth Ward-Polling place, the City
Hall. Judges: Fred Loeber, L.. A. Morris,
Savin Lisa. Clerks: Oscar Allen, w.
l. Lippincott.
The Republican voters OF each ward are
requested TO elect eight delegates and eight
alternates from their respective wards to
said convention for the purpose If
candidates for the city Offices
and the transaction of such other business
as shall come before the convention. The
primaries and convention will be conducted
under the revised rules as adopted by the
last city convention.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23
THE WRONG NAN.
A Man and q Story Which DO Not Be-
long to Butte.

The Inter Mountain of last evening con.
tains an article calculated to injure a we'll
known citizen of this city among those who
are ~unacquainted with the facts OF the
case. TIE article in question vas taken by
our evening contemporary from the Port
land tOr.) News and headed Jack Dowd
Abroad" in which it is made to appear
that Mr.. Dowd had very recently engaged
in a questionable transaction by which he
corraled $1,000 and then swindled his
partner in the crime out of his share of
the Doodle.
As a piece of news for Portland people
the little story found a proper place in
the papers of that city. but the
headline Jack Dowd Abroad" weuld
lead the uniformed to believe that the
person refer, ed to was the oi1-timer Jack
Dowd of this city. whom nearly everyone
knows as a l~aw-abiding. orderly. and a
rather heavy tax-payingci citizen. Now the
fact is Jack has not been out of the city
as far as Silver Bow during the past two
years, but has been at home
strictly attending to his business. And
about the worst thing TIE MINER
knows of Jack doing during that time
vas to sign the incorporation petition;
he being a freebooter and a pretty large
at that. As there are nearly as many
Jack Dowds in the country as there are
John Smiths it would be well for news
papers to exercise little caution in Con-
their name with crooked dealings.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23

Dinners IN New York, in London, in Wash
ington, in Philadelphia, in perhaps all ,sr~e
cities are conducted on debt paying nrin,
elptes th and therefore they grow very dull.
MOI that people desire indecorous njeas,,ra
but they get bored to death by gilded w.
overburdened %splendor. Almost all bard
working men in America are dyspeptic and
only iook at their hands during the tbraa -.
tour last courses. Two people are BROUGHT
fose '"e Tia perhaps, who havs never met Be-
omnon To relieve this awkward mouan.
20 RAISE the dull, depressing cloud which sat'
.ls over tne 1aded senses, what better that an
Ingenious dinner card, with a quotation from
H g91se 81 Are. or :. a few lines of original poetryi
beginning, a subject of common interest
Is worth a world to an anxious hostess. ~
=. ner guests thus amused, introduced. and
put at their ease at once is worth mnoh
John Sherwood in New YOGI
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23

Michigan legislators are the first to bull.
dose a railroad since the passage of the
interstate commerce law. The whole pro.
ceedins is a disgrace to the legislature OF
That State and to the railroad company.
After the members had returned their
passes in compliance with the demand Of
the railroad company they should have re.
fused to receive them back. Each exhibited
. weakness and unmanliness in the trans.
actions which will provote the ridicule Of
the country.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-23

A funeral Of an extraordinary character
o place in Yorkshire, when Mr.. J. s.
Broderick. a well known follower of Epicur,s
Of Halves, in North Yorkshire, was buried
The interment took place in the deceased zen
of a hill. Mr.. Broderick, who believed in ~
t~ransmigration of souls, had directed that no
munster OF religion should attend his burial.
ana that no religious ceremony of any kind
should he performed over his remains. The
funeral, therefore, was almost of a UNIQUE
eescrlptlon. Inc procession had to pass over
Stagefell, one. of the spurs of the Pennine
range. and as the road was blocked in nlacas
over twelve feet deep with snow drifts the
mourners bad a most difficult task. The i'm.
mediate place of sepulchre was very ROCKY
1t bad been chosen by the deceased gentle.
man, and blasting operations had to be car
rled on during the whole of two DAYS to rom.
plete the grave, Which is nearly twenty foe,
below the surface. Pail Mall Gazatto